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Biography

Maayke is the founder of the Excess Materials Exchange (EME): a digital marketplace where companies can buy and sell any type of excess material and/or product. The EME actively matches supply and demand of materials, and materials with their highest value reuse potential.

Sessions

In a finite-resources world, circular economy offers an alternative to our take-make-dispose society by closing resource cycles and retaining value as much as possible, for as long as possible. Cities represent a key enabling environment for this transition, but efforts remain to be made to embed circular economy principles in urban infrastructure and services. How can city governments most effectively facilitate the circular transition?